English words for 'roll (a ball)'
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verb
- roll (a ball)
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
noun
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a concave shape with an open top
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
verb
noun
- evidence that helps to solve a problem
- a ball of yarn or cord or thread
- (nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
- Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
- (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
- (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
verb
noun
- evidence that helps to solve a problem
- a slight indication
- Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
- (crosswording) The text that indicates an answer in a crossword puzzle.
- An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
- Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
verb
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
- (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (slang) To play basketball.
- (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
- (African-American Vernacular) To spend money extravagantly.
- (intransitive) To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
- (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
- (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
noun
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- an object with a spherical shape
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a compact mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
- (informal) A very enjoyable time.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
- A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
- (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
- A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
- A formal dance.
- The globe; the earthly sphere.
- (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
- (in the plural) Courage.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
- (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
- (in the plural) Nonsense.
- (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
- (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ball.
- (originally soccer, countable) a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
- A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
- (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
- (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
- A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
intj
- (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
- (sports) An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
noun
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- walking with a swaying gait
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- a list of names
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- the act of throwing dice
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- (programming) An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (firefighting) A 14-day deployment.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- That which is rolled up.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
verb
- shape by rolling
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- boil vigorously
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- show certain properties when being rolled
- flatten or spread with a roller
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- begin operating or running
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- move by turning over or rotating
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- (ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
- (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
- (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
- (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
- (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
- (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
- (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- (intransitive, video games) To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
- (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- (transitive) To create a customized version of.
- (ergative, slang) To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
- (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.
- (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- (programming) To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (computing) To generate a random number.
- (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
- (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- (ergative) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.
- (transitive, music) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
- (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
- (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
noun
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
- (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
- (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
- (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
- (New England) Candlepin bowling.
- (Ireland) Road bowling.
verb
adj
noun
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- One who twists.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
- (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
- (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
- (transitive) To form a rim on.
- (bartending) To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
- run around the rim of
- roll around the rim of
- furnish with a rim
noun
- (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.
- (UK dialectal) A membrane.
- (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
- An edge around something, especially when circular.
- (wine) The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
- (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
- the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached
- the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
- (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
noun
- The act of winding into a ball.
- (poultry) The accumulation of soil on the feet of a bird, a process that eventually leads to infection.
- (beekeeping) An incident when worker bees surround a queen bee, usually leading to her death by suffocation or starvation.
- The measurement on a hydrometer of the amount of sugar in a liquid.
- The act or process of using a wrecking ball.
- The accumulation of material such as snow or mud under the feet of a horse.
- The act of wrapping something up.
- The act of curling up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Synonym of sexual intercourse.
- The act of scouring out a pipe or drain by forcing rocks or similar items through it with high-pressure water.
- The process of firing ball-like projectiles.
- The act of forcing a bolus of medicine down the throat of an animal.
- Aggregation into clumps or balls;
- The act of cutting the roots (of a tree) about six inches from the stem, wrapping roots and soil in a sack, then tying the sack with twine.
adj
verb
noun
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- A marble (small ball used in games).
- (informal, rare) A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
- (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
- (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- (baseball) The area between the outfielders.
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- a narrow street with walls on both sides
- a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
noun
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
- (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
- A course designated for ships or aircraft.
- Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
- (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
- (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
- A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
- (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
- (horse racing) The home stretch.
- (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
- A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
- A narrow road, as in the country.
- a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic
- a narrow way or road
adv
noun
- (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
- A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
- (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
- (British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
- (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
- (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
- (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
- (gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”).
- (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
- (Australia) Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
- a rotund individual
- pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
adj
noun
- (countable) The ball used in this sport.
- (uncountable) A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.
- a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post
noun
noun
- (craps) A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.
- (uncountable) An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) One's life.
- (US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
- (bodybuilding) Someone who has not used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing substances.
- One with an innate talent at or for something.
- (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
- (chiefly in the plural, slang) A breast which has not been modified by plastic surgery.
- (music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
- someone regarded as certain to succeed
- a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
- (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
adj
- (dice games) Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.
- (algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
- Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
- Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
- As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
- Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
- (music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
- Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
- Related by birth; genetically related.
- Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
- (bodybuilding) Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
- Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
- Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
- Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
- (bridge) Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
- Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.
- Uncircumcised; intact.
- Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
- Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.
- existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation
- in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
- unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
- being talented through inherited qualities
- functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
- (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
- (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related
- free from artificiality
- existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
adv
noun
- The ball used in pinball.
- (games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
- (figuratively, soccer) A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
- a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets
verb
noun
- A large rolling device used to flatten a grass surface; commonly in relation to a cricket pitch.
- Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
- One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
- (slang, music) A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.
- (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
- A rolling pin
- A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
- A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
- A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
- A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
- A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
- A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
- (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
- A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
- Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
- (slang) A wheelchair user.
- Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
- A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.
- A long wide bandage used in surgery.
- A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
- (disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.
- (slang, informal) A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
- A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
- A roller towel.
- An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
- A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- a cylinder that revolves
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
- pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
- a grounder that rolls along the infield
- Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
- (uncountable, television, film, publishing) An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.
- forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke
noun
- (historical, countable) A heavy ceramic or stone ball that was rolled along the floor in some games.
- (uncountable) A game, similar to pool and played with pool balls, played in a long, high-walled table. Each player gets five balls to arrange however they want at their end of the table, and they take turns trying to knock each other's balls into troughs at each end of the table. The player who knocks down all five of the other player's balls first is the winner.
noun
- (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.
- (uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
- a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands
- an inflated ball used in playing volleyball
noun
- ball used in playing softball
- a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger
- (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
- (by analogy, also attibutive) A question designed to be easy to answer.
- (sports) The ball used to play the sport.
verb
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
noun
num
noun
- The act by which something is rolled.
- (video games, NES Tetris) A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- the act of robbing a helpless person
- propelling something on wheels
adj
- (of an acne scar) having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.
- (slang) Under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy and molly).
- (slang) Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
- Making a continuous sound.
- Staggered in time and space.
- Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
- (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
- Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
- uttered with a trill
verb
noun
- A ball used in the game of bowls
- A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
- plural of bowl
- a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
verb
noun
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
noun
- Any game played with a ball.
- (figurative, slang) A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- (figurative) Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- (historical) A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
- a field game played with a ball (especially baseball)
noun
- (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A love triangle.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- something approximating the shape of a triangle
- a three-sided polygon
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
noun
- (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
- (uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
- (countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- (uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
- (uncountable, Australia) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
- (countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
- (countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
- a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
- a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
verb
- (Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- (soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
- (transitive) To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
- (sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.
- (Australia, slang) To pass responsibility for a task or problem to someone else, often to avoid dealing with an undesirable task or a tricky question.
adv
- (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a delicate manner
adj
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Of superior quality.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
- thin in thickness or diameter
- of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
intj
noun
- (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- (music) The end of a musical composition.
- money extracted as a penalty
verb
- (intransitive) To pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To change by fine gradations.
- (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- impose a fine on
- record a fine as a penalty in a police record
noun
- a ball used in playing baseball
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
- A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
verb
- roll (a ball)
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
noun
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a concave shape with an open top
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
noun
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- walking with a swaying gait
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- a list of names
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- the act of throwing dice
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- (programming) An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (firefighting) A 14-day deployment.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- That which is rolled up.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
verb
- shape by rolling
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- boil vigorously
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- show certain properties when being rolled
- flatten or spread with a roller
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- begin operating or running
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- move by turning over or rotating
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- (ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
- (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
- (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
- (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
- (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
- (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
- (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- (intransitive, video games) To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
- (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- (transitive) To create a customized version of.
- (ergative, slang) To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
- (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.
- (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- (programming) To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (computing) To generate a random number.
- (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
- (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- (ergative) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.
- (transitive, music) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
- (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
- (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
noun
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
- (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
- (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
- (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
- (New England) Candlepin bowling.
- (Ireland) Road bowling.
verb
noun
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- One who twists.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
noun
- The act of winding into a ball.
- (poultry) The accumulation of soil on the feet of a bird, a process that eventually leads to infection.
- (beekeeping) An incident when worker bees surround a queen bee, usually leading to her death by suffocation or starvation.
- The measurement on a hydrometer of the amount of sugar in a liquid.
- The act or process of using a wrecking ball.
- The accumulation of material such as snow or mud under the feet of a horse.
- The act of wrapping something up.
- The act of curling up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Synonym of sexual intercourse.
- The act of scouring out a pipe or drain by forcing rocks or similar items through it with high-pressure water.
- The process of firing ball-like projectiles.
- The act of forcing a bolus of medicine down the throat of an animal.
- Aggregation into clumps or balls;
- The act of cutting the roots (of a tree) about six inches from the stem, wrapping roots and soil in a sack, then tying the sack with twine.
adj
verb
noun
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- A marble (small ball used in games).
- (informal, rare) A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
- (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
- (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- (baseball) The area between the outfielders.
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- a narrow street with walls on both sides
- a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
noun
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
- (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
- A course designated for ships or aircraft.
- Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
- (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
- (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
- A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
- (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
- (horse racing) The home stretch.
- (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
- A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
- A narrow road, as in the country.
- a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic
- a narrow way or road
noun
- (countable) The ball used in this sport.
- (uncountable) A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.
- a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post
noun
noun
- (craps) A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.
- (uncountable) An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) One's life.
- (US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
- (bodybuilding) Someone who has not used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing substances.
- One with an innate talent at or for something.
- (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
- (chiefly in the plural, slang) A breast which has not been modified by plastic surgery.
- (music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
- someone regarded as certain to succeed
- a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
- (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
adj
- (dice games) Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.
- (algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
- Pertaining to death brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.
- Having an innate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.
- As expected; reasonable, normal; naturally arising from the given circumstances.
- Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.
- (music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
- Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
- Related by birth; genetically related.
- Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
- (bodybuilding) Not having used anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
- Pertaining to a decoration that preserves or enhances the appearance of the original material; not stained or artificially coloured.
- Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives.
- Formed by nature; not manufactured or created by artificial processes.
- (bridge) Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.
- Having a given status (especially of authority) by virtue of birth.
- Uncircumcised; intact.
- Designating a standard trigonometric function of an angle, as opposed to the logarithmic function.
- Pertaining to a fabric still in its undyed state, or to the colour of undyed fabric.
- existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation
- in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature
- unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
- being talented through inherited qualities
- functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
- (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone
- (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related
- free from artificiality
- existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
adv
noun
- The ball used in pinball.
- (games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
- (figuratively, soccer) A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
- a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets
verb
noun
- A large rolling device used to flatten a grass surface; commonly in relation to a cricket pitch.
- Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
- One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
- (slang, music) A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.
- (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
- A rolling pin
- A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
- A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
- A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
- A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
- A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
- A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
- (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
- A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
- Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
- (slang) A wheelchair user.
- Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
- A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.
- A long wide bandage used in surgery.
- A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
- (disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.
- (slang, informal) A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
- A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
- A roller towel.
- An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
- A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- a cylinder that revolves
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
- pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
- a grounder that rolls along the infield
- Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
verb
noun
- (historical, countable) A heavy ceramic or stone ball that was rolled along the floor in some games.
- (uncountable) A game, similar to pool and played with pool balls, played in a long, high-walled table. Each player gets five balls to arrange however they want at their end of the table, and they take turns trying to knock each other's balls into troughs at each end of the table. The player who knocks down all five of the other player's balls first is the winner.
noun
- (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.
- (uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
- a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands
- an inflated ball used in playing volleyball
noun
- ball used in playing softball
- a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger
- (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
- (by analogy, also attibutive) A question designed to be easy to answer.
- (sports) The ball used to play the sport.
noun
- The act by which something is rolled.
- (video games, NES Tetris) A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- the act of robbing a helpless person
- propelling something on wheels
adj
- (of an acne scar) having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.
- (slang) Under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy and molly).
- (slang) Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
- Making a continuous sound.
- Staggered in time and space.
- Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
- (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
- Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
- uttered with a trill
verb
noun
- A ball used in the game of bowls
- A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
- plural of bowl
- a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
verb
adv
noun
- (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
- A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
- (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
- (British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
- (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
- (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
- (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
- (gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”).
- (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
- (Australia) Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
- a rotund individual
- pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
adj
noun
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
noun
- Any game played with a ball.
- (figurative, slang) A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- (figurative) Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- (historical) A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
- a field game played with a ball (especially baseball)
noun
- (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A love triangle.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- something approximating the shape of a triangle
- a three-sided polygon
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
noun
- (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
- (uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
- (countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- (uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
- (uncountable, Australia) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
- (countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
- (countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
- a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
- a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
verb
- (Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- (soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
- (transitive) To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
- (sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.
- (Australia, slang) To pass responsibility for a task or problem to someone else, often to avoid dealing with an undesirable task or a tricky question.
noun
- a ball used in playing baseball
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
- A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
verb
noun
- A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
- (uncountable, television, film, publishing) An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.
- forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke
verb
- roll (a ball)
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
noun
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a concave shape with an open top
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
verb
noun
- evidence that helps to solve a problem
- a ball of yarn or cord or thread
- (nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
- Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
- (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
- (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
verb
noun
- evidence that helps to solve a problem
- a slight indication
- Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
- (crosswording) The text that indicates an answer in a crossword puzzle.
- An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
- Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
verb
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
- (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (slang) To play basketball.
- (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
- (African-American Vernacular) To spend money extravagantly.
- (intransitive) To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
- (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
- (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
noun
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- an object with a spherical shape
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a compact mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
- (informal) A very enjoyable time.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
- A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
- (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
- A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
- A formal dance.
- The globe; the earthly sphere.
- (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
- (in the plural) Courage.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
- (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
- (in the plural) Nonsense.
- (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
- (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ball.
- (originally soccer, countable) a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
- A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
- (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
- (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
- A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
intj
- (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
- (sports) An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
- (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
- (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
- (transitive) To form a rim on.
- (bartending) To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
- run around the rim of
- roll around the rim of
- furnish with a rim
noun
- (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.
- (UK dialectal) A membrane.
- (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
- An edge around something, especially when circular.
- (wine) The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
- (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
- the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached
- the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
- (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
noun
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- walking with a swaying gait
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- a list of names
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- the act of throwing dice
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- (programming) An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (firefighting) A 14-day deployment.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- That which is rolled up.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
verb
- shape by rolling
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- boil vigorously
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- show certain properties when being rolled
- flatten or spread with a roller
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- begin operating or running
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- move by turning over or rotating
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- (ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
- (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
- (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
- (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
- (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
- (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
- (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- (intransitive, video games) To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
- (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- (transitive) To create a customized version of.
- (ergative, slang) To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
- (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.
- (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- (programming) To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (computing) To generate a random number.
- (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
- (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- (ergative) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
- (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.
- (transitive, music) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
- (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
- (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
- (uncountable, television, film, publishing) An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.
- forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke
verb
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
noun
num
adv
noun
- (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
- A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
- (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
- (British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
- (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
- (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
- (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
- (gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”).
- (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
- (Australia) Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
- a rotund individual
- pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
adj
adv
- (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a delicate manner
adj
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Of superior quality.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
- thin in thickness or diameter
- of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
intj
noun
- (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- (music) The end of a musical composition.
- money extracted as a penalty
verb
- (intransitive) To pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To change by fine gradations.
- (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- impose a fine on
- record a fine as a penalty in a police record